Former New York Mets player Cleon Jones, like virtually all America, watched the news closely in the last few days. He knows about George Floyd, a black man, who died after Derek Chauvin, a police officer in Minneapolis, kneeled on his neck for about nine straight minutes. He knows the pain Floyd suffered, begging for the cop to stop and telling him he couldn’t breathe.
For Jones, who played 13 years in the majors and 12 with the New York Mets, the fact that Floyd died in such a coward and unfair way brought back some memories he would rather not re-live.